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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 2h

booooooo

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 2h

it wasn't particularly creative but i think it works

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 2h

Something that any viable Democrat candidate must address in 2028 is how we forcibly extricate these thoughts and attitudes toward our fellow Americans from the people who are ostensibly paid to protect them. We know that conceit a lie but too many people understand the toothpaste is out of the tube

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 2h

It's a fact of life that the alphabet boys simply do not believe that the people living in Chicago, all of them trying to go about their respective days, are human.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · 12h

This is the TT in question

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 3h

and they say comedy is dead on bluesky

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 3h

Any time someone gets mad at me for suggesting that Obama didn't care enough about the public option or card check to lean on Joe Lieberman more than a little bit in 2009 I'm going to send them this post.

austin @bainard.bsky.social · 14h

LBJ would have locked Lieberman in the Oval Office with him and threatened to play the drum solo from "Wipe-Out" with Jumbo on the Resolute Desk until he caved and that would have been step one.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 5h

in my day we just called that throwing a sweeper

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 5h

at the very least it didn't seem like any of them needed "rouge"

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Beermiscuous-Lakeview @beermiscuous.bsky.social · 6h

EVENTS THIS WEEK!

Tonight! 8pm! Delance hosts Switch Night at the café! The superior Mario Karteur wins a prize!

THURSDAY! The Love Below is here to tickle only the spookiest of funny bones. 8pm start.

TONIGHT! Tasting Tuesday is BACK with Phase Three! 6p-8p!

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 8h

chuckling to myself at the idea of anyone paying out $500 for a hit

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 9h

the average dem believes we can't ever close schools again and that it's worth killing every grandparent in the country

austin @bainard.bsky.social · 10h

this person knows the vaccine doesn't prevent transmission or disease right

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 10h

this is where i am and we still provide free masks at my work

Farm Goth 🇵🇸 @poemsandfungus.bsky.social · 12h

Like at this point, I'm past asking people to mask up. But I am asking for people to not be so openly hostile towards me masking and minding my own damn business.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 10h

so that you don’t freeze

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 13h

Black Messiah might be the best album made this century. RIP D’Angelo.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 13h

they made his face too big

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 13h

what's wrong with having a cool car

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 14h

DB Cooper

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 14h

You're right. Not only are better things not possible, we shouldn't even try if someone disagrees with us, because, well, what if someone disagrees with us? After all, possessing power is more important than doing anything with it. Sun Tzu said that.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 14h

LBJ would have locked Lieberman in the Oval Office with him and threatened to play the drum solo from "Wipe-Out" with Jumbo on the Resolute Desk until he caved and that would have been step one.

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

hah

austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

i'd pay $100 for that FLAC

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

stalin from death of stalin right before stalin dies

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austin @bainard.bsky.social · 1d

Of course that's fair, but Chicago's been continually contributing to American pop culture ever since. There's Touch & Go and Trouble In Mind, there's footwork. There's drill and more from an incredible rap scene. There's mumblecore and amazing visual art. For sports? All backward-looking.

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